Not just because I'm of the opinion that pretty much everything should be an issue decided on by individual states, but also because it signals that Trump respects the Constitution, at least on this issue. 

The Tenth Amendment makes it clear that abortion was never a federal issue to begin with: 

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

I don't see the word "abortion" anyone in the Constitution so it looks like this is a state-level issue. Trump is right to leave it as such. 

But South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham has different ideas. He seems to disagree with Trump and believes that the government should be involved on a federal level. 

"I respectfully disagree with President Trump’s statement that abortion is a states’ rights issue," wrote Graham on X. " Dobbs does not require that conclusion legally and the pro-life movement has always been about the wellbeing of the unborn child – not geography."

Graham's goal is a "national minimum standard limiting abortion at fifteen weeks."

To be clear, wiping abortion off the map would be well and good but Graham overlooks two issues here. Firstly, what the government taketh away, the government can also giveth. Putting anything back on a federal level starts a clock that eventually runs down. At some point, the issue will be back on the table sooner than later when power shifts hands.  

The goal is to get power out of the federal government's hands, and not just on this subject. Any decision-making power we can take from Washington, we should. The Republican party's goal is ultimately to decentralize the power in America, not make the federal government bend to its will, which has always been a temporary thing and a losing battle in the long run. 

We need law-unmakers, not lawmakers. 

Secondly, it will only fuel Democrats with funds when they begin using it as another front to fight against and a way to rally votes. The last thing Republicans should do is give Democrats another social front to fight on. You watch everyone from politicians to abortion groups and activists create movements out of it.

Keeping it on the state level creates complications as it turns one battlefield into 50, and even then, possibly county by county if the state deems that should be the case. That's a lot of money to have to distribute. 

If Graham truly wants abortion to die out in America, then he needs to play this more strategically. Putting it into the hands of the federal government is surface-level thinking, and shows a lack of creativity in the fight against evil. 

There's nothing good that can come out of putting a social issue into the hands of the federal government on any level. The founders seemed to understand this, Trump seems to get it, so why can't Graham?